Hacker News: roger_

New comment by roger_ in "iPhone Duo"

roger_ — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:57:36 +0000

My iPad is my primary computer so... me.

New comment by roger_ in "Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader"

roger_ — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:18:50 +0000

Thanks!

I’m looking for something that pushes portability without compromising too much core usability.

For example I can live without a touch screen if it means high quality physical buttons.

New comment by roger_ in "Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader"

roger_ — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:15:49 +0000

Surprised I never heard of this!

Looking to pick one up, any recommendations on X4 Pro vs Classic?

New comment by roger_ in "Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online"

roger_ — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:09:01 +0000

My computer's definitely gonna be faster after this.

New comment by roger_ in "25,000 Lbs. Of Chicken Products Recalled in 5 States: USDA"

roger_ — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:06:32 +0000

~5000 chickens if anyone cares :(

New comment by roger_ in "AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU"

roger_ — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:14:44 +0000

Seeing a lot of these “run 1TB models with 1GB RAM” projects recently. Most seem vibe coded and probably won’t be maintained.

Hoping a winner emerges with some real momentum behind it.

New comment by roger_ in "Tech note: making your own V-I plots at home"

roger_ — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:04:38 +0000

I’m familiar with curve tracers but hadn’t heard about source measure units.

Don’t see any on eBay for dirt cheap, wonder what author paid (he said a fraction of retail).

New comment by roger_ in "Benchmarking 15 “E-Waste” GPUs with Modern Workloads"

roger_ — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:34:19 +0000

Getting (further) into this myself so good timing. Running Qwen 3.6 27B at decent speed on some old cards but going to branch out.

I bough an Octominer for ~$150 which has power and PCIe slots and a basic Celeron and should let me expand to as many GPUs as I want.

I considered the P100s but I think the V100 16GBs are a better deal at $250. The 32GBs are way too much though.

New comment by roger_ in "Benchmarking 15 “E-Waste” GPUs with Modern Workloads"

roger_ — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:28:24 +0000

That’s cool but 7 - 12 tps is frustrating for anything interactive.

New comment by roger_ in "Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh"

roger_ — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:59:25 +0000

Does this support Qwen 3.6 (e.g. 27B) and the myriad of llama.cpp options (batch sizes, quantization, etc.)?

I'd love to see some performance data.

New comment by roger_ in "Opinionated and easy Pi.dev configuration"

roger_ — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:12:29 +0000

Funny you mention that because the OMP GitHub issues (https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi/issues) is almost exclusively attended to by a very efficient bot. I routinely submit issues and they’re replicated and resolved (via PRs) in ~30 mins.

To your question: it’s the difference between one person and an agent working on something vs an experienced dev and the entire community.

Time and tokens too of course.

New comment by roger_ in "Opinionated and easy Pi.dev configuration"

roger_ — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:45:28 +0000

Currently using Oh My Pi (https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi) and appreciate the batteries included approach.

From my limited time using pure Pi, I found quite a few of the plugins lacking and had no desire to upgrade/fix and maintain them myself. I know others feel differently though.

I like the idea of keep Pi minimal but having “official”, high quality optional plugins to make it more usable.

New comment by roger_ in "Home made GPU escalated quickly [video]"

roger_ — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:06:51 +0000

Yeah I don’t think I could ever commit to a project like this and of this scale.

Might be different if it was something truly useful or novel vs a nerd snipe.

Very impressive that he pulled it off in a relatively short amount of time.

New comment by roger_ in "NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta"

roger_ — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:42:12 +0000

Definitely going to play around with this, thanks for posting.

I know MCMC isn’t your goal, but seems like this could be used for ABC-MCMC (as is?)

Would also be nice to have an option to plot using a KDE vs histograms.

(Also your FM example seems to be technically PM)

New comment by roger_ in "Herdr: One terminal to rule them all"

roger_ — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:22:36 +0000

To monitor and instruct agents.

New comment by roger_ in "Herdr: One terminal to rule them all"

roger_ — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:31:00 +0000

If there was a mobile app or at least some kind of agent agnostic telegram integration then I'd be more interested.

New comment by roger_ in "Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI"

roger_ — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:08:11 +0000

Hmm… how does one even pick between multiple vibe coded options?

I like to vet my options before committing to new software but who knows if the authors are gonna support these in a month? I don’t want to waste Fable tokens to fix bugs myself when they crop up.

New comment by roger_ in "Python 3.14 compiled to metal – no interpreter"

roger_ — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:55:26 +0000

This guy is behind the awesome Oh My Pi agent, so I’d give him a chance.

New comment by roger_ in "Podman v6.0.0"

roger_ — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:56:52 +0000

Anyone have experience switching from Docker to Podman?

I have a lot of compose files in my homelab/automation setup and those are what I’m most concerned about.

New comment by roger_ in "Zluda 6 release (run unmodified CUDA applications on non-Nvidia GPUs)"

roger_ — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:39:37 +0000

Has anyone tried this for LLMs and how does it compare to Vulkan?